Alan Cottey: UEA Personal Pages
As indicated on the Home page, the three main subject areas, Asset and Income Limits, Open Science, and Nuclear Education are connected with a range of other aspects of culture, notably economics, sustainability, values and ethics, technology, and work. I mention here some of my papers which are so connected. More information, besides references and links, will be found on the Publications page.
Asset and Income Limits is the most obviously connected in this way. In Technologies, Culture, Work, Basic Income and Maximum Income (2013) I consider AIL, Basic Income and 'conceiving work as any socially useful activity' to be a kind of package that could be the basis of a cooperative economy. Another connection is made in Moral Equivalents of Greed (2012), a development of William James' 1910 essay The Moral Equivalent of War - between human values and the AIL proposal, with its foregrounding of benign rewards in the form of public esteem.
Don't Worry, Cynthia; No One's in Charge (2012) is on the tension between control and freedom; and Limits to Stability (2012) comprises reflections on what limited degree of ecological and cultural stability may be achieved. Also concerned with our long-term prospects is Logarithmic Time: its role in current culture and education (2012) which is on the need for a bold expansion of our temporal horizons.
On a more specific, practical note concerning sustainability, I have for several years studied the ecological impact of bathing (washing). Clean People in a Clean World (2012) and Environmental and Social Aspects of Domestic Bathing, chapter 7 of Ethical Engineering for International Development and Environmental Sustainability (2015, editor M Hersh) are recent publications on this.
An example of how Open Science and, more generally, Open Knowledge relate to what is needed for a sustained, civilised future is provided by Knowledge Production in a Cooperative Economy (2014) where the setting is an economy which differs from the current competitive economy. Ethical issues in knowledge production are discussed in Reducing Ethical Hazards in Knowledge Production (2015).
2018 was the centenary of the birth of radio astronomy pioneer Martin Ryle. As a Trustee of the Martin Ryle Trust, I wrote some articles about him, principally about his concerns about war, nuclear weapons, nuclear energy and wind energy ...
Martin Ryle: an energy visionary (2018)
Martin Ryle, war and peace (2018)
A man ahead of his time – How Martin Ryle saw the future of energy (2018)
The basic version of this page was created in 2013 and the page was last modified on 1 December 2019